Thinking Big
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When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human
minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and
dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and
provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in
ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social relations over
ever-greater distances – the ability to ‘think big’ – that drove
the enlargement of the human brain and the development of the human
mind. This ‘social brain hypothesis’, put forward by evolutionary
psychologists such as Robin Dunbar, one of the authors of this
book, can be tested against archaeological and fossil evidence, as
archaeologists Clive Gamble and John Gowlett show in the second
part of Thinking Big. Along the way, the three authors touch on
subjects as diverse and diverting as the switch from finger-tip
grooming to vocal grooming or the crucial importance of making fire
for the lengthening of the social day. As this remarkable book
shows, it seems we still inhabit social worlds that originated deep
in our evolutionary past – by the fireside, in the hunt and on the
grasslands of Africa.Table of ContentsPreface • 1. Psychology Meets
Archaeology • 2. What It Means to Be Social • 3. Ancient Social
Lives • 4. Ancestors With Small Brains • 5. Building the Human
Niche: Three Crucial Skills • 6. Ancestors with Large Brains • 7.
Living in Big Societies
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